I am realizing a subtle trap that Satan has laid down for you and for me. We live in an airbrushed, perfection-demanding, fake culture that has us believing that we are not someone until we are somebody. Somebody who continually has to bring her A game to anything in which she is involved. The longer I am in ministry, the more I realize I have given in to the lie that I need to pass up on what … [Read more...] about The Paralyzing Pursuit of Perfection
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Lay Down (the Burdens of Your Heart)
"Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.” Matthew 11:29-30 (NLT)The chorus of a well-loved song of mine written by Amy Grant has come back to me continually this week. I have started singing the words several times without a conscious thought until I … [Read more...] about Lay Down (the Burdens of Your Heart)
Slap It On and Call It Cool!
"What matters is not your outer appearance—the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes—but your inner disposition.Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in." I Peter 3:3-4 (The Message) (Trying to look my coolest in seventh grade, 1980)One of my dearest friends at Ubangi Academy my seventh grade year was Cindy Matheson. This is the … [Read more...] about Slap It On and Call It Cool!
The Beauty of Brokenness
My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise. Psalm 51:17 (Amplified Bible)It was December 1987 and I was one of thousands of people on the University of Illinois campus at Urbana/Champaign. We were all together for Urbana '87, one … [Read more...] about The Beauty of Brokenness
The Cost of Wisdom
Job 28:20-24 (New International Version) 20 "Where then does wisdom come from? Where does understanding dwell? 21 It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing, concealed even from the birds of the air. 22 Destruction and Death say, 'Only a rumor of it has reached our ears.' 23 God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells, 24 for he views the ends … [Read more...] about The Cost of Wisdom
